Word: contendere
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The strong look stronger after a surpriseless second football weekend among the Ivies. Dartmouth and Princeton joined co-defending champion Harvard in scoring impressive victories, and Cornell, the other member of last year's first division, served notice that it will be a contender once again.
When they come around to handing out the Most Valuable Player awards for this Series, the smoke-throwing Gibson will have to be a leading contender. In 18 innings, he has surrendered only 11 hits--five yesterday--and one run.
Romney, a contender for the GOP Presidential nomination in '68, arrived in Boston last night. He is scheduled to visit Brandeis, Boston College, Boston University, and the ABCD community center in Roxbury today, before arriving at the Harvard Faculty Club Library for cocktails at 6 p.m.
In similar vein, Richard Nixon told an interviewer that it would be disastrous for a Republican presidential nominee to run on a "peace-at-any-price" platform in 1968. "This would be a Pyrrhic victory the candidate might win," said Nixon, "but the Republican President would soon have another war...
Cleveland, whose population is only 35% Negro, in 1965 came within a hairsbreadth of becoming the first major U.S. city to elect a Negro mayor. It may still be the first. Currently, the leading contender in the Oct. 3 Democratic primary is Carl Stokes, a Negro state legislator who, running...